Anthony Albanese has denied any attempts were made to muzzle debate about Israel and Palestine at Labor’s 50th national conference despite a backbencher’s claim he was shut down.On the final day of the conference in Adelaide, Western Sydney MP Ed Husic failed to find a seconder to back a resolution acknowledging a UN inquiry had found Israel “deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank”.Delegates at the conference, which sets Labor’s national platform each three years, instead backed a position that closely aligned with the Albanese government’s, giving way to a display of unity underscored by Jewish MP Josh Burns and Palestinian-Australian MP Basem Abdo embracing after choosing “empathy over outrage” and “dialogue over division”.But Mr Husic claimed factional heavyweights had stifled debate – a claim the Prime Minister rejected in an interview aired on Sunday while praising Mr Burns and Mr Abdo for their “considered … approach” and recognition “that it’s in the interest of both Israelis and Palestinians to have peace and security in the Middle East”.“We want to see a two-state solution,” he told the ABC.“We want to see Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side, and we want to see that issue advance.Asked specifically about Mr Husic’s push to have genocide claims against Israel in Labor’s platform, Mr Albanese said the “party platform has got the balance right”.He said the country needed to “make sure … everything that we do is balanced”.“That we say that ‘I support the right of Israel to exist within secure borders, I also support the legitimate aspirations of Palestinians for their own state and to live in peace and security with prosperity,’” Mr Albanese said.“Now, we want to see that coming together, and Australia can play a role in promoting harmony rather than conflict and that is the role that I want our government to continue to play.”On Mr Husic, he insisted he had “no problem” with his former minister or any other delegate “having their say and making their contribution”.“Ed, like every other delegate, has a right to come along and to pursue whatever they … see as their objective,” he said.“And that’s fine by me.”Mr Albanese also rejected that there was a lack of transparency with how consensus was built in the party, even though he conceded debate had changed since the fiery battles of ideas he took part in as a younger parliamentarian.“Well, the party has changed and one of the things that’s happened in the party is we are more cohesive, more united than we’ve ever been before,” he said.“And I think that’s a good thing.”But opposition frontbencher Jonathon Duniam said the national conference showed the “Labor Party is ruled with an iron first by the Prime Minister”.“There’s not one area of that entire organisation that he does not manage or have some degree of control over, and I think that was demonstrated for all to see by the fact that Ed Husic couldn’t even get a seconder for his motion on an issue that previously … he would have been able to,” he told Sky News.He said he suspected Mr Husic was “on the way out”, saying that “clearly all stops were pulled in order to manage the one fly in the ointment this last week”.Fronting reporters on Saturday, Mr Husic said he was “surprised at the extraordinary amount of energy” that went into what he claimed was preventing debate.He entered the conference with several issues that clashed with the Albanese government’s positions, from a new gas tax to scaling back AUKUS commitments.Asked if he had been frozen out by the party’s top brass, Mr Husic said: “If they put me in the freezer, I don’t give a s***.”